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June 4, 2026

Would you use Used Diapers as recycled toilet paper?

Would you use Used Diapers as recycled toilet paper?
Would you use Used Diapers as recycled toilet paper?
5 Good News Stories
Would you use Used Diapers as recycled toilet paper?

Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: Japanese towns facing shrinking landfill space recycle used diapers into new diapers and even toilet paper by having residents separate and label waste, then washing, shredding, breaking it down, and sterilizing pulp with ozone gas to meet strict hygiene standards. Luis, a 45-year-old with MS symptoms and past vision loss, is alerted by his guide dog Jerry, who persistently pressed his chin to Luis’ left leg; doctors found deep vein thrombosis exactly there. At Boston’s PAX East Expo, 254 people dressed as Michael Myers set a Guinness World Record tied to a new Halloween video game, with trivia that the mask is based on William Shatner. Five California friends have recreated the same cabin photo at Copco Lake since 1982, including a recurring jar with a roach. Sugar the Dove is recognized as the oldest dove in captivity, beating the prior record by 15 years.

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0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, can I interest you in some used diapers? Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. All right, this is what's going on in Japan. They've taken on one of the least glamorous waste problems imaginable, used diapers, and instead of bearing them, they're turning them into new diapers. All right. They realized the landfill was going to run out of space, so they figured out, we got to recycle these things. These days, those towns recycle about eighty percent of household waste, including diapers. Residents separate and labeled diaper waste, which is then collected, washed, shredded, and broken down to its core components. The pulp gets sterilized using ozone gas, basically being deep clean to the point where it meets strict hygiene standards and can now be reused to make new diapers. They're also using it for things like toilet papers, So think about what you're doing next time you're using toilet paper. It may have been a used diaper. Wees thought the pain in his leg was another chapter in a long battle with MS.

1:03 He's forty five, had been dealing with symptoms for years. Including losing his vision in his early twenties, he was matched with a guide dog, a black lab named Jerry. Jerry had helped him navigate the world, boosted his confidence and pulled him out of isolation. Then Jerry started doing something unusual. He kept pressing his chin against Luis's left leg, not once, not casually, but persistently. Luis and his wife decided to go to the hospital. There, doctors discovered he had deep veigned thrombosis, a potentially life threatening blood clot in the exact spot Jerry the Dog had been focused on. Wow In Boston, horror fans turned Boston into a scene straight out of a slasher movie on purpose. It was at the Packs East Expo. Organizers gathered tuner in fifty four people dressed as Michael Myers to set a new Guinness World Record title for largest group portraying Michael Myers.

1:51 The event was tied to the unveiling of a new video game based on the Halloween franchise. Participants showed up in the character signature look blue coveralls and the White Mask which, by the way, the white mask is based on a likeness of William Shanner. That's true trivia. There five friends from California have been running one of the longest, simplest social experiments imaginable. They stand in the same spot and take the same photo and see what happens. It started in nineteen eighty two, John Mark, Dallas, Different John and Jaded took a casual snapshot. They were at the family cabin on Copco Lake near the Oregon border. No plan, just guys taking a photo. Five years later, they did it again. By nineteen ninety seven, they realized that what they had started and they made it official. And they've kept doing it in nineteen eighty two, eighty seven, ninety two, ninety seven, two seven, twenty twelve, twenty seventeen, twenty twenty two.

2:41 And guess what's coming up soon? Same lineup, same lake, same general vibe, a little more gray hair. There's even a recurring prop. It's a jar that originally contained a roach they caught on the first trip that somehow became the unofficial mascot. We'll check back with them next year. And congratulations to Sugar the Sugar the dove officially recognized as the oldest dove living in capacity at forty four years seventy two days Most doves in captivity live around twenty years. Duane has lived with Sugar since the day Sugar hatched. Sugar even had a mate, Rose, Rose passed away way back in nineteen ninety six, which means Sugar has been carrying on solo longer than some people's entire adult lives. Sugar likes to watch TV on the family couch. Interesting, the previous record holder was a bird named Methuselah. Sugar has beat the previous record by fifteen years. And those are your five good news stories for today.